The week in Westminster: April 6th – April 25th
Parliament returns for three days between the Easter and royal wedding long weekends.
COMMONS
Tuesday
Questions – health
Ten minute rule motion – industrial relations (voting procedures)
Legislation – finance (no 3) bill
Adjournment debate – funeral payments
Wednesday
Questions – Cabinet Office, PMQs
Ten minute rule motion – exports credit guarantee department (regulation and reporting)
Opposition day debate – TBA
Motion – Section 5 European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993
Adjournment debate – Government policy on self-regulation of the press
Thursday
Questions – culture, Olympics, media and sport
Business statement – leader of the House
Legislation – London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill
Adjournment debate – Government response to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
LORDS
Tuesday
Legislation – mental health (discrimination) bill
Questions – RAF Northolt, chiropody and podiatry, takeover bids of companies of strategic importance
Legislation – European Union bill
Motion – Regret motion on the Accession (Immigration and Worker Registration) (Revocation, Savings Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2011
Wednesday
Questions – Erasmus scheme and tuition fees, oak processionary moth, school curriculum review
Legislation – pension bill, police reform and social responsibility bill
Thursday
Questions – EU and peace in Europe, Welsh referendum, National Music Plan
Debate – living in extreme poverty in the developed world
Debate – coordination between government departments on the use of soft power
Motion – Approve the government’s assessment as set out in the Budget Report, combined with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which forms the basis of the UK’s Convergence Programme
PICK OF THE COMMITTEES
Wednesday
14:30 – defence secretary Liam Fox, before defence committee, on: operations in Libya
